June 16th is Bloomsday
Photo of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott
From Molly Bloom’s soliloquy, the final line of Ulysses by James Joyce:
“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. “
Happy Bloomsday, everyone! Let us celebrate with a viewing of Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Joyce ‘n’ Beckett…
via Colin Peters
June 17th, 2012 at 3:03 am
That made my day. More than that, it warmed my heart in a most satisfying and peculiar way. Two sides of a most comi-tragic human coin.
June 21st, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Bloody brilliant if you’d ask me.